TVR Buy Benelli

[daftlad]

A Daftlad exclusive.

TVR have bought the Italian Superbike manufacturer Benelli and will move production to Blackpool. Looks like we will see a motorbike with a TVR badge afterall.

It also looks like Moleskins still has some money left!!

[HarryW]

No not heard of them, is that like Ducatti .

H

[Plotloss]

Lovely looking machines with questionable reliability by all accounts.

I mean, you shouldnt laugh but...



They sound like they fit the corporate vision perfectly...

[dick dastardly]

Got any proof?

If Ducati are the Ferrari of the bike world then Benelli are definately the Lamborghini

[HarryW]

Can't speak or read italian, just going to sardinia though , but this artical says something about Moleskins TVR/Benelli and 90 mil Euros. www.repubblica.it/2005/f/motori/luglio2005/benellivenduta/benellivenduta.html

H

[FlipFlopGriff]

Do they make a profit?
If so they could fund TVR. If not this must just be a game for him as that'd be 2 companies which make no business sense.
FFG

[cgibson]

daftlad said:

A Daftlad exclusive. Looks like we will see a motorbike with a TVR badge afterall.

Or a stripped down TVR with a Benelli engine in it!!

[zumbruk]

HarryW said:

Can't speak or read italian, just going to sardinia though , but this artical says something about Moleskins TVR/Benelli and 90 mil Euros. www.repubblica.it/2005/f/motori/luglio2005/benellivenduta/benellivenduta.html H

Feeding it to babelfish yields;

The historical pesarese factory has been bought from the miliardario of 25 years,
Nikolai Smolenski, owner of the English brand of sport car
Benelli sold to the Russians
It enters in the group of the TVR


Benelli TNT

The Benelli Motion - historical pesarese factory of ciclomotori and motorcycles - has been bought from a Russian miliardario of 25 years, Nikolai Smolenski, owner of the English brand of sport car "Tvr", cars of wraps high from the 90mila euro in sù. The Benelli it has been yielded from the family Merloni di Fabriano, than it had found some years to it ago from the Selci family.
Next Wednesday, an old encounter between and new property will sanction the effective passage of management. The control will happen through the constitution of one new society.

[cgibson]

daftlad said:

A Daftlad exclusive. Looks like we will see a motorbike with a TVR badge afterall.

Or a stripped down TVR with a Benelli engine in it!

[Big Al.]

HarryW said:

Can't speak or read italian, just going to sardinia though , but this artical says something about Moleskins TVR/Benelli and 90 mil Euros. www.repubblica.it/2005/f/motori/luglio2005/benellivenduta/benellivenduta.html H

It does say in the article Bought by a 25 year old Russian millionair.

[hugoagogo]

badly auto-translated version of the story here http://tinyurl.com/7jjlw

[jellison]

He is good at buying marginal companies - they are barely keeping their heads above water - but if he can have TVR and Benelli making good products in 2 -0 5 years he will have done a great job. Ooh to have been given Millions buy you dad....!

[gerjo]

daftlad said:

A Daftlad exclusive. TVR have bought the Italian Superbike manufacturer Benelli and will move production to Blackpool. Looks like we will see a motorbike with a TVR badge afterall. It also looks like Moleskins still has some money left!!

The two most favorite means of transportation in one hand then, John.

[tvrolet]

As a lad in the 70's, the only notable thing Benelli seemed to have (while we were blasting about on our Kawasaki and Honda 'fours') was that they had a straight 6.

....wait a minute....a straight six....and it seemed compact and reliable....

So...maybe a lightweight Tuscan with a 750 or 900cc engine...or a fairly podgey bike with a 4 litre lump

WB

[GingerNinja]

dick dastardly said:

Got any proof? If Ducati are the Ferrari of the bike world then Benelli are definately the Lamborghini

..and let's not forget the TNT....both designed by a Brit, I might add:

[gemini]

[daftlad]

gerjo said:

daftlad said: A Daftlad exclusive. TVR have bought the Italian Superbike manufacturer Benelli and will move production to Blackpool. Looks like we will see a motorbike with a TVR badge afterall. It also looks like Moleskins still has some money left!! The two most favorite means of transportation in one hand then, John.

Given up biking......apart from the Ducati and maybe, just maybe, a new Hyabusa

[-SXS-]

Dont Benelli make guns????

[Plotloss]

If you look at the concept bikes drawings that were released recently there is a definate similarity but in the TNT and the SuperSport style bike...

[gerjo]

daftlad said:

gerjo said: daftlad said: A Daftlad exclusive. TVR have bought the Italian Superbike manufacturer Benelli and will move production to Blackpool. Looks like we will see a motorbike with a TVR badge afterall. It also looks like Moleskins still has some money left!! The two most favorite means of transportation in one hand then, John. Given up biking......apart from the Ducati and maybe, just maybe, a new Hyabusa

You call that giving up?!